A Quotes
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“All unrest is but the struggle of the soul to reassure herself of her inborn immortality.”
“All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness, were quite forgotten. Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight, and in the centre of this there was a girl: the most marvellous girl - I knew it at once! - that I had ever seen.”
“All upright Germans will be National Socialists, but only the best National Socialists will be party members!”
“All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization.... Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not live in their city; they merely inhabit it.”
“All'uscita del paese si dividevano tre strade: una andava verso il mare, la seconda verso la città e la terza non andava in nessun posto.
Martino lo sapeva perché l'aveva chiesto un po' a tutti e da tutti aveva avuto la stessa risposta:
- Quella strada lì? Non va in nessun posto! E' inutile camminarci.
- E fin dove arriva?
- Non arriva da nessuna parte
- Ma allora perché l'hanno fatta?
- Ma non l'ha fatta nessuno, è sempre stata lì!
- Ma nessuno è mai andato a vedere?
- Oh sei una bella testa dura! Se ti diciamo che non c'è niente da vedere...
- Non potete saperlo se non ci siete stati mai.”
Source: Cuentos por teléfono
“All useless, according to the common sense of utility, yet all of them inspiring in me curiosity and the simplest delight. Delight in the fact that beautiful things made by people forty years ago sit around, bringing pleasure to a stranger in the now. It reminds
me of my duty, everyone's duty, to the future. My friends kids will need in twenty years to find crap like this at the markets so that they can feel held by the hands of past people's future dreams and not feel totally alone.”
Source: Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding
“All utopias are depressing because they leave no room for chance, for difference, for the 'miscellaneous'.”
Source: Brief Notes on the Art and Manner of Arranging One's Books
“All utopias are dystopias. The term "dystopia" was coined by fools that believed a "utopia" can be functional.”
“All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.”
“All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.”
“All values must be won by contest, and after they have been won, they must be defended.”
“All variables are independent.”
“All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.”
Source: Bureaucracy
“All vegans and vegetarians have heard it: “But what about the plants? What about their feelings? They feel pain, too. Don’t you feel bad for the carrots? You are killing them, you know.”
Sorry, but the above represent the dumbest set of excuses I’ve ever heard as to why some people claim eating animals is morally equivalent to eating plants. Tellingly, these people’s concern for plant feelings has not reared its head over eating a baked potato with steak, or seeing capers in chicken piccata. No, it’s arisen because the conversation has turned to cruelty toward the animals we eat, something that’s difficult to swallow.”
“All very humanitarian, but why?' said Twoflower. 'It’ll all be the same in an hour.' 'Because,' said Rincewind vaguely”
Source: The Color of Magic
“All very successful commanders are prima donnas and must be so treated.”
“All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.”
“All victories breed, and that over your superior is foolish or fatal.”
“All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal from general laws to private judgment: he, therefore, who differs form others without apparent advantage, ought not to be angry if his arrogance is punished with ridicule; if those whose example he superciliously overlooks, point him out to derision, and hoot him back again into the common road.”
Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson...
“All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.”
“All violence demands reform, and all violence desperately begs to be healed.”
Source: Voice of Reason
“All violence flows from the same source ... the need for power. Power is the only true morality ... the only deathless god, and the appetite for violence is its only commandment.”
Source: Carrion Comfort
“All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.”
“All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding to violence with violence resolves nothing; it only escalates violence, anger and hatred. It is only with compassion that we can embrace and disintegrate violence. This is true in relationships between individuals as well as in relationships between nations.”
Source: Calming the Fearful Mind: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype.”
Source: Remote Control: Power, Cultures, and the World of Appearances
“All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.”
“All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things.”
“All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.”
Source: Selections and Essays
“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.”
Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics
“All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.”
“All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.”
Source: The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke
“All virtues are but the descendants of love.”
Source: Mucize Misafir Merhaba: The Peace Testament
“All virtues of a man rest upon his honesty and integrity; if you are not honest, you can’t sustain any other virtue. While honesty may not provide you any instant benefit, it prepares you for the challenges of life. If you are honest, your conscience is clear. And the road to everlasting happiness goes through a clear conscience.”
Source: 31 Ways to Happiness
“All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.”
Source: The Great Exemplar of Sanctity and Holy Life Described in the History of the Life and Death of the Ever Blessed Jesus Christ: The Saviour of the World
“All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of
its features from behind the unreasoning mask.”
“All visible things would not claim as their king some color of their region, which is actually among the visible things of this region, but rather would say, he is the highest possible beauty of the most lucid and perfect color.”
“All-vision gathered into a single ray,
As when the eyes stare at an invisible point
Till through the intensity of one luminous spot
An apocalypse of a world of images
Enters into the kingdom of the seer.”
Source: Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol
“All visions begin with relationships. My relationship with God is where I receive the vision; my relationship with my people is where I give the vision. If those relationships aren't what they could be or should be, on either side, the receiving or the giving out, the vision is going to be aborted.”
“All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.”
“All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.”
Source: The Letters of D. H. Lawrence
“All voodoo, nonsense, hokum, a hoax.”
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”
Source: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
“All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.”
Source: Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...
“All walking is discovery. On foot we take the time to see things whole.”
“All walls fall. Today, tomorrow or in 100 years, they will fall. It's not a solution. The wall isn't a solution. In this moment, Europe is in difficult, it's true. We have to be intelligent, and whoever comes...that migrant flow. It's not easy to find solutions, but with dialogue between nations they should be found. Walls are never solutions. But bridges are, always, always.”
“All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.”
Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.”
“All war aims for impunity.”
“All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.”